Kangaroo08 Part 1 Everything seemed to move blindingly fast after the unexpected landing. A battered truck with three young black men carrying rifles screamed to a halt next to the plane. Then followed a headlong dash across the dusty and open ground toward a small village some five miles distant. After a brief stop at the village my wife and I were separate from the other passengers and crew. We were the only white people on the plane and at
Read moresuemartin Part 1… It was a dream come true. I had finally convinced Barry, after 10 years of marriage, to sell up and buy a few acres. Some place where we could feel one with nature and have some animals around us. Not big ones like horses but goats and pigs and chickens. It would be a place to wake up mornings and here the calls of birds all around us. The land wasn’t that great it was mostly covered
Read morekangaroo08 It wasn’t what I expected. When I married Steve. Living on an outback cattle station was lonely and frustrating. Steve was often absent for days or weeks at a time as he patrolled the fences making necessary repairs. The cattle also needed drenching, branding and general mustering and moving across vast tracks of land. It was not possible to bring the stock to one point so Steve and the men went to the stock and did the necessary work
Read moresuemartin Part 1… Silvia sat in the bay window seat with her hands clasped tightly about her knees looking at the rain beating against the glass and running down the glass in sheets that overlapped each other in a vertical unrelenting river. It had rained hard for some time. Now as the darkness descended the girl wondered where her father and brother were. One thing was certain they would be making no attempt to drive back across sodden paddocks where
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